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ARTIST TALK: "Artivist" DANIEL ARZOLA

Tuesday, Nov. 2, 7:30 - 9:00 PM

On Campus  & VIa LIVESTREAM
United Theological Seminary of the Twin CitieS

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Daniel Arzola by Alejandro Hernandez Vera 02Join us for Daniel Arzola's first gallery exhibit in Minnesota. Having popularized the term "artivism" (art and activism), Arzola will offer an artist talk on his work to face homophobia and transphobia, break down queer stigma, and confront LGTBQ prejudice through the transformative power of the arts.

A visual artist, Human rights activist, and recipient of a Trailblazer Honor Award from Logo TV for his contribution to the LGBTQ community, Arzola's work has been translated into twenty languages and supported via Twitter by the performing artist Madonna. Learn more>

Arzola's theory of artivism has been featured at various conferences at universities in the United States such as Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University and Amherst College, also at the University of Alberta in Canada and Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela. In 2017 the magazine North American Americas Quarterly included Arzola as one of the top five graphic artists influential in Latin America.

DANIEL ARZOLA CARDThe artist talk will be held on campus, but also will be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person. Find directions and parking information here. Questions? Contact Ashley: ahovell@unitedseminary.edu.

Please note: We are taking precautions to ensure the safety of everyone present. The seminary's updated COVID policy requires event attendees to both wear a mask and to be vaccinated.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Daniel Arzola (Maracay, May 6, 1989) is a visual artist, Human rights activist and lecturer winner of a Trailblazer Honor Award of Logo TV for its contribution to the LGBTQ community. Daniel Arzola popularized the term "Artivism" being the creator "No Soy Tu Chiste" (I'm Not a Joke), a series of posters with approaches that face homophobia and transphobia, work that was also translated into twenty languages and supported via Twitter by the American singer Madonna.

Arzola intervened the first LGBTQ metro station in Latin America, Carlos station Jáuregui of the Buenos Aires metro, becoming its first permanent exhibition, which includes a mural of fourteen meters, stairs and balconies allusive to the fight of Jáuregui and the LGBTQ community. Daniel Arzola's theory of artivism has given place at various conferences at universities in the United States such as Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University and Amherst College, also at the University of Alberta in Canada and Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela. In 2017 the magazine North American Americas Quarterly included Daniel Arzola in his top 5 graphic artists influential in Latin America.

Since 2016 Daniel Arzola has illustrated the official posters of the Internanational Queer and Migrant Film Festival in Amsterdam and its editions in different cities around the world.

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